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How do I into Thomas Aquinas?
What are his most important extracts?
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>>9163900
Is eggman Aquinas his reincarnation?
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>>9163900
>How do I into Thomas Aquinas?
You don't. You start with the Greeks and skip the guy.
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>>9163900
all or nothing
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"I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
What did he mean by this?
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>>9163844
Did he say this or is this something that guy from Dorian Gray said?
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>>9163844
Well, my experience is that they do tend to prefer Illiad to Odyssey; for men, the reverse..
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>>9164355
You're gay if you prefer the Odyssey to the Illiad
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Can someone please explain to me what makes Pablo Neruda so good?
I can't for the life of me get why he's so celebrated or why he's so important for that matter.
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because his dad didn't want him to be a poet and he proved him wrong
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if you are not reading a book in its original language, your opinion is invalid
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I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.
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Just finished reading this.
What are some other books written for mentally retarded people?
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>>9163400
anything by Joyce or Orwell really.
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>>9163400
>this thread again
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>>9163410
>waa lit isnt muh libtard safe space
kill yourself
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>tfw u didnt major in Classics as an undergrad
why did i fuck my own shit up like this
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>Wanting to be unemployed
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>>9163387
fuck off wagecuck, nobody cares
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>>9163387
How does it feel to know your life is worth $XX.XX per hour?
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Books that convey the same feelings as pic related? 2017-02-27 03:19:33 Post No.9163349
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Books that convey the same feelings as pic related?
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>>9163349
Please keep this shit on your containment board
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>>9163352
Fug man dont b so rigid
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>>9163349
>imblying laws borders and shit are good
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>every time i got into conflict in my life i eventually emerged victorious and now i'm sticking it to ireland itself because i'm far superior to it and just watch me i shall become a smashing success
did i miss anything?
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>>9163337
yes, the irony
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So, this is the power of brainlet.
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>>9163337
I was looking for a good edition to buy of this book. Thank you for finding me a deckle edged, beautifully illustrated cover for my collection.
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Prove to me that the Odyssey and the Iliad weren't written in the last 100 years
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why?
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Pope translated it in 1715?
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>>9163336
Proof?
How did he manage to look so cool?
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>>9162930
a cool fart sniffer
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>>9162929
Ikr? Especially during his revolutionary phase.
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who is this dude? looks irish
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What books will help me not being so much of a simpleton so I can understand stuff like pic related?
The only thing I can say about most art is "it looks cool" unless I start making shit up like "this guy pointing at the light means something related with God bla bla bla or is maybe what he felt when his mom hugged him bla bla bla"
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>inb4 mein kampf and On Women
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>>9162813
E.H. Gombrich: The Story of Art
Robert Hughes: The Shock of the New
John Richardson: A Life of Picasso
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>>9162821
Are any of these translated to spanish?
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>implying uTOOLitarians ever recovered from this
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>mfw I discovered dosto was the original cuck poster
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>he took Dostoevsky's reactionary views seriously
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>>9162684
>Constance Garnett translation
Kill yourself pleb.
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Meditation and Mindfulness 2017-02-26 11:45:17 Post No.9162469
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Meditation and Mindfulness
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Dear /lit/,
What is the best place to start reading about mindfulness and meditation?
I have literally no fucking clue about this stuff.
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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Avoid all Scientism guides to meditation.
Initiate with the Indians
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>>9162475
I dont even know the distinction between the two.
>>9162480
What makes you say that? My gut feeling tells me much of what these people write in the way of scientism is just bait to cater to the western uni crowd. Is that it? Again, I have to profess my ignorance here..
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Who is your favorite British author?
What are your favorite novels, novellas, poems etc. from Brit Lit?
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Who could give a fuck about britbong hacks when the guy in your pic literally raped them in their own game?
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My favourites: Waugh, Larking, Auden, Browning, Donne. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Milton, George Eliot, Housman, Henry Green, McEwan, Wodehouse, Rochester
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>>9162437
>being this illiterate
Do *you* even understand what you mean?
How does one read the Bible and feel inclined to be religious and believe in God? I was raised Christian but went through a spiritual struggle when my father died when I was 20. I read a lot of philosophy--Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Aurelius, Descartes, Leibniz--and it helped improve my outlook on life and develop my own self far more than Christianity ever did. I'm rereading the Bible now at age 23 and the portrayal of God just seems silly, and the enforced ethics without any justification.
The prose is obviously beautiful and there are still poignant themes, but I feel no inclination to move past a basic, metaphysical "One" as my interpretation of God. What exactly is the rational behind thinking God cares about us personally and behind assigning human qualities to a supposedly perfect being?
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>>9162378
>assigning human qualities to a supposedly perfect being
Nobody does that. Do you not understand how the Trinity works?
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>>9162378
How is it possible that you think Christianity is assigning human qualities to God? You said that you've read so many shit, yet still can't differentiate between the common western conception of God and the God you're meant to believe in.
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What are some books that will teach me the value of self discipline?
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initiation into hermetics
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meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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>>9162284
Do you mean "self-discipline" as voluntary genuflection before an altar, or as the ability to use your own focus?
Diogenes was way more of a hardass than St. Lawrence, aside from the whole parable about "actually roast the other side of my ass." I mean, he was a fucking slave for quite a while, and not just to his ideas, but a person physically compelled to servitude.
Also, dig that tale about the apple thief. Fuck determinism and fatalism. And the public masturbation dialogue.